Georges Couthon

Georges Couthon (22 December 1755-28 July 1794) was a politician of the revolutionary French Republic who was a member of the Jacobin Club.

Biography
Georges Couthon was born on 22 December 1755 in Orcet, Auvergne, France. A member of the lower bourgeoisie, he became a lawyer and after the French Revolution of 1789 became a deputy on the Legislative Assembly of the new French Republic. In 1793 he was made a member of the Committee of Public Safety alongside his friends Maximilien de Robespierre and Louis Antoine de Saint-Just and was responsible for the passing of the Law of 22 Prairial, which sharply increased the rate of counter-revolutionary executions during the Reign of Terror. He was guillotined during the Thermidorian Reaction, and it took ten minutes for him to be arranged correctly under the guillotine due to his paralysis.